[1288] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: The stolen beaver paws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Williams)
Fri Apr 12 05:46:52 2002
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:58:39 -0400
From: Ryan Williams <breath@MIT.EDU>
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At 03:49 AM 4/12/02 -0400, Jeremy H. Brown wrote:
>Ryan Williams <breath@mit.edu> writes:
> > What MIT needs
> > more of is exciting, creative, ballsy folks like Amal. Humping the
> > statue was a bold idea that will go down in the annals as one of the
> > classic hacks on Harvard.
>
>Damn... I really, truly, honestly can't tell if that's sarcasm. Is it
>sarcasm? Or are you really putting statue-humping in the same league
>as the balloon that popped up from the ground at the Harvard Yale
>game?
OK, sorry, a little hyperbole was, I think, warranted. I've certainly
never heard of the beaver costume used in this fashion, though, so points
for originality and blatant symbolism. It's great for the
damn-that's-funny effect.
People should be doing this thing more often. I heard about some folks a
year or two ago epoxying a plunger to the Johnson Gate. That rocks.
-RYaN
Ryan D. Williams, MIT Class of 2003
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